Hawakal

How did the idea for the yearbook take shape? Sukrita Paul Kumar: When two poets get together, they inevitably talk poetry. That’s what happened when both of us met for the first time three or four years ago. We discussed how a huge amount of poetry in English was being written and published across the country — anthologies galore, social media flooded with poems, pompous launches of collections, vanity publications — but without any sifting. There were very few discerning critics and readers to filter the better poems…